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Quote by Jonathan Swift
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the h

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. – Jonathan Swift

Other quotes by Jonathan Swift

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. – Jonathan Swift

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Satire
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Jonathan Swift
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. – Jonathan Swift

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power
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Jonathan Swift
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power
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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. – Eric Hoffer

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power

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands. – Spiro T. Agnew

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power

The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. – Michel Foucault

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power

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. – Daniel Webster

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power

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The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves. – William Hazlitt

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power

I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget – not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true. – Diana Lynn

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smile

Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Risk

Life doesnt just happen its constructed through the history of power. And thats something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world thats trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here. – Mike Mills

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History